Mike IgnatowskiThe Golden Opportunity That The Movie Oppenheimer MissedI’m convinced that Christopher Nolan, the writer and director of Oppenheimer, missed a golden opportunity to have a much more profound…5 min read·Sep 3, 2023----
Mike Ignatowski66 Life Lessons to Share on My 66th BirthdayOn his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly recorded a video of 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice and shared it on YouTube. Inspired by this, I put…7 min read·Sep 1, 2023----
Mike IgnatowskiinNavigating the ApocalypseSign up for our Newsletter on SubstackMedium is a great tool for many things, but we’ve decided to use the substack site to continue publishing and to put out a semi-regular…1 min read·Oct 24, 2020----
Mike IgnatowskiLecture Notes from “The World Future We Need”Here is a collection of slides and lecture notes.1 min read·Feb 1, 2020----
Mike IgnatowskiinNavigating the ApocalypseHow Will we Respond to the Challenges of the Coming Decade?The following beautiful comment came from Insigniam founder Shideh Bina, as quoted in the Fortune article at…1 min read·Dec 24, 2019----
Mike IgnatowskiinNavigating the ApocalypseWhy the Decade of the 2020s May Just Be the Most Important Decade in Human HistoryThis January 1st we will start not just a new year, but a new decade. Most people will accept the claim that this will be an important…2 min read·Dec 16, 2019----
Mike IgnatowskiinNavigating the ApocalypseAccepting Climate Change Despite the Difficulty of Processing ItOne of the problems with accepting climate change is that it is so far outside of the range of our actual experiences it doesn’t seem real…2 min read·Oct 1, 2019----
Mike IgnatowskiNavigating the ApocalypseHere is the situation we find ourselves in today at this pivotal moment early in the twenty-first century: We are basically apes with…2 min read·Aug 31, 2019----
Mike IgnatowskiinNavigating the ApocalypseIs Sustainable Progress Really Possible?What should we mean by the term “Progress”, and is it really possible to have long term sustainable progress?3 min read·Aug 31, 2019----
Mike IgnatowskiinNavigating the ApocalypseThoughts on the Evolution of Life on EarthA while ago I attended a book discussion of “Ancestor’s Tale” by Richard Dawkins. The book is an excellent discussion of the evolutionary…2 min read·Aug 24, 2019----